What's new in IBM HACP Extended Edition v4.1

HACP Extended Edition (HACP EE) v4.1 is developed with additional features that enhance the user experience.

The new and enhanced features are listed below:

New Usability features:

1. Web-Based Deployment Wizard
2. Printer Icon

Enhancement to existing features:

1. FTP and VT Services under Admin Console
2. FTP Performance Improvements
3. FTP Caching of the Delta Changes
4. Host Code Page
5. Fixes for Internal Defects

Web-Based Deployment Wizard:

The web-based Deployment Wizard (DW) is a component of the web-based admin console from HACP EE v4.1 where users can create multiple sessions (3270,5250, FTP, VT, CICS,3270 Printer and 5250 Printer sessions) using the web page. Users can create Configuration-based, HTML-based, and Combined-based models using Host On-Demand and HACP EE.

Printer Icon:

In this release, Printer Icon is provided for the following support.

• Users can handle the host file printing and the session properties similar to Host On-Demand.
• Config Server-based model users can edit the properties and values reflected from server to client and vice versa.

Note: For an HTML-based model printer, session properties and values will be stored in the local cache.

FTP and VT Services under Admin Console:

The user can Start, Stop, and Configure FTP and VT services from the admin console using HACP EE v4.1. Re-starting NCServiceManager from Host On-Demand will restart FTP and VT services, similar to other Host On-Demand services.

FTP Performance Improvements:

From this release, FTP will upload files as streams rather than buffers, enhancing the service's performance.

FTP Caching of the Delta Changes:

In the latest version of HACP EE, the FTP main screen data, i.e., "Sharing Tab," will be stored under the browser cache.

Host Code Page:

Additional supported host code pages are listed below.

• 277 Norway
• 1142 Norway Euro
• 500 Multilingual
• 1148 Multilingual euro

Note: The United States (037) code page is set by default in HACP EE if the non-supported code page is configured in the server.

Fixes for Internal Defects:

This release contains fixes for internal defects for improving the product quality.

1. Deploy the given .ear file to the Application Server, along with the features.
2. Access the HACP EE config-based, HTML-based, and combined-based model pages from any compatible browser except the IE browser.